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Digitized  by  the  Internet  Archive 
in  2014 


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The  Photo-Engraving  Company. 


WHEN,  in  1872,  this  company  first  commenced  business,  and  started  the  process 
of  photo-engraving  in  this  country,  the  most  visionary  dreamers  could  not 
have  foreseen  the  great  developments  of  the  illustrative  arts  which  have  followed 
the  continual  experiments  we  have  engaged  in.  The  large  amount  of  money 
spent  and  the  untiring  efforts  to  produce  the  finest  and  most  practical  results 
attainable,  have  resulted  in  placing  us  at  the  head  of  the  illustrators  of  the  world, 
and  we  to-day  can  produce  the  best  results  in  all  branches  of  photo-relief  plate 
engraving  on  this  or  any  other  continent. 

Many  imitators  have  sprung  up  and  sailed  in  our  wake,  under  names  so 
closely  resembling  our  own  that  many  would-be  customers  of  ours  have  received 
inferior  productions  which,  in  no  sense,  represented  the  art  of  photo-engraving, 
as  it  existed  in  its  best  phases,  and  have  consequently  considered  the  method  crude 
and  too  imperfect  for  general  practical  use.  To  all  such  we  can  offer  a  process 
which  is  a  perfect  substitute  for  wood  engraving,  inasmuch    as  our  plates  closely 


resemble  the  hand-work,  can  be  printed  on  any  ordinary  printing-press  in  connection 
with  type,  and  can  be  electrotyped  in  the  usual  manner,  the  cost  being,  in  most 
cases,  from  33 1 3  to  50  per  cent.  less.  This  pamphlet  contains  a  few  specimens  of 
our  later  work,  and  we  confidently  offer  them  to  close  inspection,  knowing  that  the 
high  grade  of  excellence  shown  will  convince  the  most  critical  of  the  superiority 
of  our  methods. 


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For  the  information  of  many  of  onr  customers,  who  have  often  asked  the  ques- 
tion, and  the  guidance  of  those  who  do  not  understand  the  necessities  of  our  process, 
we  give  this  little  sketch  of  our  method  of  procedure.  In  the  first  place  it  is  neces- 
sary that  the  copy  for  our  use  be  in  clean  black  lines  or  stipple  on  white  or  slightly 
tinted  paper,  and  the  copy  may  be  either  a  pen  or  crayon  drawing,  a  wood-cut,  steel 


or  lithographic  print,  all  of 
produced  directly  without 
are  not  suited  to  this 
by  the  half-tone  process 
this  pamphlet).  When  these 
plied  with  all  is  ready  for 
which  is  the  making  of 
pinned  to  a  board  which  is 
and  a  glass  negative  is  made 


which  can  readily  be  re- 
redrawing  (drawings  in  wash 
process,  but  can  be  made 
described  in  another  part  of 
conditions  have  been  com- 
the  first  step  in  the  process, 
the  negative.  The  copy  is 
set  in  front  of  the  camera, 
in   the   usual   manner  and 


intensified  so  that  the  lines  or  stipples  of  the  copy  stand  out  clear  and  sharp.  The 
negative  is  then   placed   in  a  printing  frame  over  a  chemical  substance  which  has 


been  made  sensitive  to  the  action  of  light,  and  is  then 
sun  or  electric  light,  either 
pose,  until  the  picture  of  the 
on  the  prepared  substance, 
manipulated  in  a  manner 
it  becomes  a  mould  from 
be  readily  made.  This  cast 
ing  department  and  a  plate 
it  in  the  usual  manner, 
not  entirely  perfect,  and  is 
engraver  who  has,  in  most  instances,  served  his  time 
imperfections  are  carefully 
mounted  on  wood  or  metal, 
desire  of  the  customer,  and 
trotypes  may  be  made  in  the 


exposed  to  the  rays  of  the 
of  which  serves  our  pur- 
negative  is  clearly  printed 
This  preparation  is  then 
peculiar  to  ourselves,  until 
which  a  plaster  cast  can 
is  placed  in  our  stereotyp- 
of  type  metal  is  made  from 
This  plate  of  course  is 
taken  in  hand  by  a  skillful 

as  a  wood  engraver.  The 
remedied,  and  the  plate  is 
according  to  the  expressed 
is  ready  for  the  press.  Elec- 
usual  manner. 


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